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By digging in your heels on this, arent you dooming your own infrastructure bill? >> who is digging in their heels? the infrastructure bill has been passed. you have a bipartisan bill with 19 republicans. who thought that could happen? who thought that -- you know, we worked hard on that for many, many months. and the presidents team was very much involved. and the president went out and sold this around the country. why would you basically let the perfect be the enemy of the good? you have a bi...

You cant be at 28 or 30 or more with a corporate net. i said 25 all in. and i think that every corporation should pay a minimum of 15%. they should all pay something. i believe in that. but the bottom line is, the need that we have -- they put no qualifications on this as means testing of the need of the people, means testing. how many people have you had that say theyre sending me checks, i dont know why? weve all heard that. >> i want to get to some of the specifics in a second. you just said ...

Heels? the infrastructure bill has been passed. you have a bipartisan bill with 19 republicans. who thought that could happen? who thought that -- you know, we worked hard on that for many, many months. and the presidents team was very much involved. and the president went out and sold this around the country. why would you basically let the perfect be the enemy of the good? you have a bill right now. im not saying were not going to get the reconciliation bill whenever. >> they have leverage. th...

Corporation should pay a min minimum of 15%. they should all pay something. i believe in that. but the bottom line is, the need that we have -- they put no qualifications on this as means testing of the need of the people, means testing. how many people have you had that say theyre sending me checks, i dont know why? weve all heard that. >> i want to get to some of the spevengs in a second. you just said you want to get the infrastructure bill that you helped to negotiate, a bipartisan infrastru...

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Taxes, on people that they represent, and those are the aspects thats going to make it more complicated. everyone is talking about whats happening now. september is going to be a very busy, intense month, and washington, d.c., you have the debt ceiling, a bill to keep the government funded, this infrastructure bill and reconciliation bill all set to collide, and so thats what people should be watching, how much of that fight ends up frustrating house moderates more importantly house progressives...

It is genuinely unclear why this handful of democrats, 4% of the house of democratic party. theres nine of them. its unclear exactly why they wanted to do this. they couldnt really give a coherence policy-based answer of why it was important to blow up this larger plan and pass the smaller thing. why, i dont know. they did get a lot of free media out of it and they got their names in the paper, maybe that was it. their plan did seem like it was mutually assured distraction. if they had blocked t...

And finalized. this is directly connected to that bipartisan infrastructure deal thats already been passed in the senate. house progressives and the speaker, nancy pelosi, have said that theyre not passing that bipartisan deal until they know that reconciliation package is going to be passed. and thats what led to this dustup between moderate democrats. theres a group of ten moderate democrats who have said that they werent going to vote for the budget to be moved forward without that bipartisan...

Willy-nilly guessing what the dose might be. >> and thats the advice from the american academy of pediatrics, although you can do it now, waiting for these trials, to figure out the window for the doses for 5-year-olds, 6:00-year-olds, thats what physicians should do. >> docr. khan, what mask do you have for us today? >> i know its fly. >> mask on, america. >> oh! >> nice. >> were doing "star wars" today. >> "star wars," nice. thats a good-looking mask right there. dr. khan, thank you. >> thanks...